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title: "Connect Clio and Help Scout - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Matter Status Updated\" fires in Clio, your agent runs \"Add Customer Email\" in Help Scout."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-help-scout"
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# Connect Clio and Help Scout

When **Matter Status Updated** fires in [Clio](https://apiant.ai/connections/clio), your agent runs **Add Customer Email** in [Help Scout](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout), or **New Conversation** in Help Scout to **Create Company Contact** in Clio. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Clio **8** triggers Clio **38** actions Help Scout **4** triggers Help Scout **19** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Clio and Help Scout to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Clio and Help Scout can do together

### From Clio to Help Scout

- When **Matter Status Updated** in Clio then **Add Customer Email** in Help Scout
- When **New Activity** in Clio then **Create Customer** in Help Scout

### From Help Scout to Clio

- When **New Conversation** in Help Scout then **Create Company Contact** in Clio
- When **New Customer** in Help Scout then **Create Person Contact** in Clio

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Clio and Help Scout

## Triggers and actions 12 triggers · 57 actions

- Trigger

**Matter Status Updated**

Triggers when the status of a matter has changed.

- Trigger

**New Activity**

Triggers when a new activity is created.

- Trigger

**New Calendar Entry**

Triggers when a new calendar entry is created.

- Trigger

**New Communication**

Triggers when a new communication is created.

- Trigger

**New Contact**

Triggers when a new contact is created.

- Trigger

**New Matter**

Triggers when a new matter is created.

- Trigger

**New Task**

Triggers when a new task is created.

- Trigger

**Task Status Updated**

Triggers when the status of a task has changed.

- Action

**Create Calendar Entry**

Creates a new calendar entry.

- Action

**Create Communication**

Creates a new communication.

- Action

**Create Company Contact**

Creates a company contact.

- Action

**Create Expense Entry (Activity)**

Creates a new expense entry.

- Action

**Create Matter**

Adds a new matter to Clio Manage.

- Action

**Create Matter Folder**

Creates a new folder in a matter.

- Action

**Create Matter Note**

Creates a new matter note.

- Action

**Create Person Contact**

Creates a person contact.

- Action

**Create Task**

Creates a new task.

- Action

**Create Time Entry (Activity)**

Creates a new time entry.

- Action

**Delete activity**

Delete an activity.

- Action

**Delete calendar entry**

Delete a calendar entry.

- Action

**Delete contact**

Delete a contact.

- Action

**Delete matter**

Delete a matter.

- Action

**Delete task**

Delete a task.

- Action

**Find Company Contact**

Returns the company contacts that match the search text.

- Action

**Find Matter**

Returns the matters that match the specified search text and optional filters

- Action

**Find Newest Matter by Client Email**

Returns the most recently created matter for the client with the given email address.

- Action

**Find Person Contact**

Find a person contact by ID, name, title, email address, address, phone number, web site, instant messenger, custom fields, related matter name, or company name matching a given string.

- Action

**Find User**

Find a user by name.

- Action

**Get activity**

Fetches an activity (time or expense entry) by ID. An error occurs if the activity is not found.

- Action

**Get calendar entry**

Returns one calendar entry by id, including summary, start and end times.

- Action

**Get communication**

Returns one communication by id.

- Action

**Get contact**

Retrieve a contact (person or company) by id.

- Action

**Get document**

Retrieve document metadata by id.

- Action

**Get matter**

Retrieve a matter by id.

- Action

**Get task**

Retrieve a task by id.

- Action

**List activities**

List all activities.

- Action

**List contacts**

List all contacts.

- Action

**List practice areas**

List practice areas.

- Action

**List tasks**

List all tasks.

- Action

**List users**

List firm users.

- Action

**Update activity**

Update an activity.

- Action

**Update calendar entry**

Update a calendar entry.

- Action

**Update Matter**

Update an existing matter.

- Action

**Update Person Contact**

Updates an existing person contact.

- Action

**Update Task**

Updates a task.

- Action

**Upload Document to Matter**

Uploads a file from a URL into a Clio matter's documents and marks it fully uploaded.

- Trigger

**New Conversation**

Polls for newly created conversations across mailboxes.

- Trigger

**New Customer**

Polls for newly created customers.

- Trigger

**New Mailbox**

Polls for newly created mailboxes.

- Trigger

**New User**

Polls for newly added users (team members).

- Action

**Add Customer Email**

Add an email address to a customer.

- Action

**Create Customer**

Create a new customer record.

- Action

**Create Note**

Add an internal note thread to a conversation.

- Action

**Create Thread (Reply)**

Add a reply thread to an existing conversation.

- Action

**Delete Conversation**

Delete a conversation by ID.

- Action

**Get Conversation**

Retrieve a single conversation by ID.

- Action

**Get Customer**

Retrieve a single customer by ID.

- Action

**Get Mailbox**

Retrieve a single mailbox by ID.

- Action

**Get User**

Retrieve a single user by ID.

- Action

**List Conversations**

List conversations, optionally filtered by mailbox, status, tag, or query.

- Action

**List Conversation Threads**

List all threads on a conversation.

- Action

**List Customers**

List customers, optionally filtered by email, mailbox, or query.

- Action

**List Mailboxes**

List all mailboxes in the account.

- Action

**List Mailbox Folders**

List the folders within a mailbox.

- Action

**List Tags**

List all tags in the account.

- Action

**List Users**

List all users (team members) in the account.

- Action

**Update Conversation**

Update a conversation's subject, status, mailbox, assignee, or owner via JSON Patch.

- Action

**Update Conversation Tags**

Replace the tags on a conversation.

- Action

**Update Customer**

Update a customer's profile fields.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Clio** Clio is a practice management platform that helps lawyers work more efficiently by making it easy to do...](https://apiant.ai/connections/clio)
- [ **Help Scout** Help Scout is a help desk and shared inbox platform for customer support teams.](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Clio

- [ **Clio to PandaDoc** PandaDoc helps you build and deliver sales quotes and proposals and track presentations and close deals...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-pandadoc)
- [ **Clio to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-hubspot)
- [ **Clio to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-salesforce)
- [ **Clio to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-slack)
- [ **Clio to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-google-sheets)
- [ **Clio to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clio-to-gmail)

## More into Help Scout

- [ **ActiveCampaign to Help Scout** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-help-scout)
- [ **Beanstalk to Help Scout** Beanstalk is a code hosting and deployment workflow tool for Git and Subversion.](https://apiant.ai/connect/beanstalk-to-help-scout)
- [ **BigML to Help Scout** BigML is a machine learning platform for building, evaluating, and running predictive models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bigml-to-help-scout)
- [ **Caspio to Help Scout** Caspio is a low-code database platform for building online database applications.](https://apiant.ai/connect/caspio-to-help-scout)
- [ **Cliniko to Help Scout** Cliniko is a practice management platform — manage patients, appointments, invoices, contacts, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-help-scout)
- [ **CNBC to Help Scout** Get the latest business news, stock market, financial and earnings stories from CNBC's public RSS feeds.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cnbc-to-help-scout)

Questions

## Clio and Help Scout, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Clio?

Any of Clio's 8 triggers in the catalog, including Matter Status Updated, New Activity, New Calendar Entry and New Communication. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Help Scout when something happens in Clio?

Any of Help Scout's 19 actions, including Create Customer, Create Note, Create Thread (Reply) and Update Conversation. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Help Scout to Clio?

Yes. When something happens in Help Scout, your agent can act in Clio too. This page covers both directions: Help Scout's triggers and Clio's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Clio or Help Scout?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

###

### Can my AI client use Clio and Help Scout without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

###

### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
